31337

why? because why the fuck not! 

I guess some of the 4500 Dollars would be better spent on a player with at least decent sound quality. 

Some retard at Brothers said:

Possibly the most powerful speak of all time.

Not even close. 

IG88 said:

Not even close.

Yeah, they're getting away with that on semantics...it possibly is...even though it's not. 

Bubba said:

Yeah, they're getting away with that on semantics...it possibly is...even though it's not.

No, it's not possible. Now, if they said that it's "maybe" the most powerful, that statement would be correct. But is it possible? No. 

Now you'd think for $4,500 they could have afforded a proof reader. 

Bubba said:

Yeah, they're getting away with that on semantics...it possibly is...even though it's not.

Let's go slap a bunch of speakers into a shelving unit, cover the front in mesh, and make a mint selling it to suckers! C'mon Bubba, to the Fazedmobile! 

I like the idea of using an expensive tube amp to listen to compressed mp3s from an ipod. 

Yea, for $5k I could put together my own setup that'd probably be a lot better, and a bit more discrete then a fridge. 

russxl said:

I like the idea of using an expensive tube amp to listen to compressed mp3s from an ipod.

If that's sarcasm, you do realize the iPod supports Apple Lossless, which is how I listen to everything on mine. 

Shipping rate on demand

if you have to ask ... 

Bet it sounds like garbage. 

mediaphile said:

If that's sarcasm, you do realize the iPod supports Apple Lossless, which is how I listen to everything on mine.

I did not! I've been using the same old ass ipod forever and did not know that it supported lossless formats. 

russxl said:

I did not! I've been using the same old ass ipod forever and did not know that it supported lossless formats.

Yeah I think the only iPods that don't support Apple Lossless are the first two generations of iPod Shuffles. The most recent generation, the one with the controls on the headphones, does support Apple Lossless.

If you rip a CD with iTunes, all you have to do is go into your iTunes Preferences, and under "Import Settings" just select "Import Using: Apple Lossless." There aren't any encoding options or anything for it, really straightforward. Just keep in mind that an average Apple Lossless track is like 40mb.

If you get all your music online through less legitimate sources coughbittorrentcough like I do, the most widely used lossless codec is FLAC, which iTunes does not natively support. If you're on a Mac, there's a great free tool called Fluke that you can use to import the FLAC files into iTunes, where you can then convert them to Apple Lossless for playing on your iPod. I don't know if a similar tool exists on the PC. 

IG88 said:

Not even close.

Agreed, they say 125watts max for the entire unit....hell just 1 of my tweeters in my car handles that. The whole set up in my car runs 1750watts.

Cool story huh bro? 

Atar said:

Agreed, they say 125watts max for the entire unit....hell just 1 of my tweeters in my car handles that. The whole set up in my car runs 1750watts.

Cool story huh bro?

Why in god's name would you put 1750W in your car? Running half that power would probably unscrew all the bolts holding it together... 

CfazinC said:

Why in god's name would you put 1750W in your car? Running half that power would probably unscrew all the bolts holding it together...

I've got a 1600W amp running just four speakers, no subwoofer. I got the amp for free a while back, and it had just been sitting around in my closet for months, when finally the head unit of my stereo shorted out or something. Instead of shelling out another couple hundred bucks for a nice new head unit, I decided I wanted to go a different route and just run audio directly from my iPod Touch, since I could then ditch CDs completely (and I already never listen to the radio). So I looked up some guides for my car's unnecessarily complicated audio setup, installed the amp myself, and fed the output of the amp directly to the speakers (which required pulling out the rear right panel of my car's interior to bypass the factory-installed amp and splice directly into the speakers' wiring). So now my iPod Touch is connected to the amp via a 3.5mm-stereo-jack-to-RCA cable (the amp thankfully has a low level RCA input). Built my own little power switch for the amp in a little Radioshack project box and everything.

The point of the story is that the amp has so much output that I keep its gain set to about 25%, and with the volume slider on the iPod set to about 90% it's fucking blasting. I can't even imagine listening to 1750W of full output. Way too many decibels for anyone who's interested in retaining their sense of hearing. On the other hand, when your amp can handle such high output, listening to it at a lower level means crystal clear audio free of distortion. 

Someone's probably compensating for an old mini with a small storage space. 

The things people buy to make up for having a tiny penis astound me. 

37.40" x 49.21" x 11.81"

3' tall x 4' wide x 1' thick

/prefers 'merican weights & measures 

Only down to 40Hz? Weaksauce 

I demand video 

O.O 

This is a real loudspeaker... 

Ronin777 said:

The things people buy to make up for having a tiny penis astound me.

Yup... 

deserving of the "31337" tag

anyone else first think of the opening scene from "back to the future." 

Why in god's name would you put 1750W in your car? Running half that power would probably unscrew all the bolts holding it together...

if thats irrational to you, then you'd be scared at some of the things I've seen. Do you know how many Cerwin Vega Stroker subwoofers can fit in a Chevy Tahoe? a lot.

and I love it. When it comes to tunes, anything worth listening to is worth making people in the next area code listen to. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

It can go too far. little known fact: The recent Chilean earthquake was caused by an 18000w system made up of 20 15" JL subs in the back of a volvo station wagon. 

mediaphile said:

The point of the story is that the amp has so much output that I keep its gain set to about 25%, and with the volume slider on the iPod set to about 90% it's fucking blasting. I can't even imagine listening to 1750W of full output. Way too many decibels for anyone who's interested in retaining their sense of hearing. On the other hand, when your amp can handle such high output, listening to it at a lower level means crystal clear audio free of distortion.

I hate to be picky, but gain isn't really a measure of output, it's a measure of sensitivity to input. with your gains set to 25% you could get the amp to output it's full power with a strong enough input signal. On the other hand you're probably correct that you're nowhere near the peak output of the amp the way you have it setup now.

/Has an amp with 100 amps worth of fuses in the trunk of his car, powered with a 60 amp fuse under the hood.
//Hasn't blown the 60 amp fuse yet.
///Oh yes it's good and loud. 

Dude, i found this and submitted it months ago! 

Still, I bow in it's greatness.
I'd buy one(if I were a powerball winner that is!) 

if i wasn't in a apartment atm (moment being almost 4 years) i would have already made a system with twice the power at a faction of a fraction on the cost. it just might not have been so pretty. 

mediaphile said:

Now you'd think for $4,500 they could have afforded a proof reader.

i am exceptionally agree 

i am disappoint 

WaxMonkey said:

deserving of the "31337" tag

anyone else first think of the opening scene from "back to the future."

YES! 

Socket7 said:

I hate to be picky, but gain isn't really a measure of output, it's a measure of sensitivity to input. with your gains set to 25% you could get the amp to output it's full power with a strong enough input signal. On the other hand you're probably correct that you're nowhere near the peak output of the amp the way you have it setup now.

Hell it might not even be a gain pot, all I know is that the volume on the amp is turned down. 

chapel said:

why? because why the fuck not!

Good ol' American way. Excess of everything...except intelligence. 

Killabandaid said:

Good ol' American way. Excess of everything...except intelligence.

There's no such thing as an excess of intelligence. 

mediaphile said:

There's no such thing as an excess of intelligence.

Tell that to Station.

http://www.billandted.org/pics/bj/bjstation2.jpg 

...Maynard? 

"Gen 1 units all sold out."
Hurray for disposable income! 

Killabandaid said:

Tell that to Station.

http://www.billandted.org/pics/bj/bjstation2.jpg

Dude any alien who's down with Ted Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq., is alright in my book. STATIOOOOOON 

/air guitar 

I have a six-watt guitar amp, and it gets too loud for my house at around 5 on the dial (out of 12, mofo) 

Guaranteed to make your penis look small 

Sexperience. 

"Gen 1 units all sold out."

They made 2 of them. And the creators kept one. 

WaxMonkey said:

anyone else first think of the opening scene from "back to the future."

No. 

The specs on this thing suck. 

I'm not paying 4500 bucks for a speaker from a company that can't even spellcheck! 

sanka said:

Only down to 40Hz? Weaksauce

That's the first thing I noticed. 40Hz is seriously horrible. A cheap pair of headphones will do 20Hz. Weaksauce indeed.